What to Think About When You Think About Data

Delivered to the Alaska Press Club annual conference. Download the PDF to get access to the embedded links.

Transcript

1. What to Think About When You’re Thinking About Data Alaska Press Club Conference Anchorage, AK April 25, 2014
2. Hello!
   I’m Chrys Wu @MacDiva
3. Journalist Strategist Coder Consigliere
4. Journalist
   Strategist
5. Pulitzer Prize!
6. Journalist
   Strategist Coder “Consigliere” Tell me about you.
7. Chrys Wu,@MacDiva Developer Advocate, The New York Times
8. Chrys Wu,@MacDiva Developer Advocate, The New York Times ‽
9. Chrys Wu
   @MacDiva
10. I solve problems. I help people.
11. Text Subtext Collecting Data
12. Government Agencies
13. Make FRED your friend
14. Excel Add-in
15. PUMS & IPUMs
16. NCSL Military & Veterans Affairs State Legislation Database
17. Follow the (federal) money (Yep. Federal contractor data’s in here.)
18. NGOs
19. The World Bank
20. The Internet Archive
21. Internet Archive
22. Draw From Your Own Well Eric Molina/Flickr
23. Text Subtext Cleaning Data Cherrypatter/Flickr
24. Tabula How to use it
25. OpenRefine Tutorials!
26. Gotchas
27. tPyos
28. Tlp*s
29. Typos
30. Disambiguation
31. (Excel limits!) ! Watch out for files with exactly 1,048,576 65,536 or 32,000 records/rows
32. Join IRE. It’s worth it. Also: They'll train you!
33. Chrys Wu
    @MacDiva • Estratega Digital, Periodista y “Coder” • Guardiana global de Hacks/Hackers • Organizadora de Hacks/Hackers NYC • y otros roles… Questions?
34. Chrys Wu
    @MacDiva • Estratega Digital, Periodista y “Coder” • Guardiana global de Hacks/Hackers • Organizadora de Hacks/Hackers NYC • y otros roles… Thank you.